Should i pick up this 6950 for 200 Australian?

the gtx 560 ti is better and more overclocking friendly if you ask me  
don't get the powercoulor 6950

yeah the 560ti does attract me thats for sure, but i am upgrading from a 6870 so i want the card to be as powerful as possible

the price is good

umart shows them for $260-280
msy's best price is $209 for a powercolor branded one.

1G 6950 Powercolor 209 / HIS 232 / Gigabyte 258 / Asus 264

http://www.umart.com.au/newindex2.phtml?bid=6
http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf

there is nothing wrong with those cards. if your in Australia you really must look at this parts supplier http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf they are normally the cheapest around.

yeah i am from Australia. I have tried shopping at MSY before but had some issues with stock availability. Would you reccomend the HIS of the powercolour? I heard the powercolour 6950 uses the same board as the 6870 so i am a bit concerned about that. Also my gigabyte 6870 did not have voltage control so a little bit reserved when it comes to getting another gigabyte, unless it definitely had voltage control.

im not sure which ones do and dont have the voltage control.

i have been using sapphire ATI cards for as long as i can remember, beside having 2 year manf warranty they have always been a rock solid card.

The 560 Ti 900 Mhz tops the 6970 at 1920 x 1200 so I don't see the 6950 being in the picture at all unless your resolution is 2560 x 1600.

http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=1...

yea i want to xfire in the future. Definately seems that overall, the 6950 scales better than the 560ti, despite it being closely behind in a few, it lags behind greatly in several, even well bellow the 6870x2.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2011-gaming-graphics...

yeah this has sold the 6950 to me. BTW i do not plan on unlocking as its hard to do these days.

yeah as far as i know it was only the VERY early 6950's you could unlock anyway.

Best answer selected by mkristian.